Improvement in oiling journals



UNITED STATES WILLIAM G. VVINNE, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN OILING JOURNALS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,845, dated August8, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. WINNE, of Albany, in the county ofAlbanyand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inOiling J ournals, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference heing had to theaccompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which thefigure is a detail sectional view of my improved oiling device asconnected with the journal of a vertical shaft. l

My invention consists in the construction of the journal and bearing ofa vertical shaft so as to feed the oil at the bottom thereof and causethe journal to receive and transfer it, as hereinafter fully describedand subsequently pointed out in the claim.

A represents the journal of a vertical shaft. B is the stationary partof the bearing, and C is the removable part of the bearing, in which isformed the oil-cup or reservoir D, the open upper end of which is closedby a screw-plu g F. From the upper and lower parts of the cup orreservoir D channels d1 d2 lead into the journal A. E is a rod or plugwhich passes through the screw-plug F, and extends down to the bottom ofthe said oil-cup or reservoir. The lower part of the rod or plug E isgrooved upon one side, so that when the rod is turned so as to bring thesaid groove opposite the channel d1 the oil may flow through 'saidchannel to the journal A, and when the rod or plug E is turned so as toturn the groove in its lower part away from the channel d1 the escape ofthe oil will be prevented. The journal A has a spiral groove, a', formedin it running in such a direction as to take the oil as it ows inthrough the channeled1 and cause it to pass up to the upper end of thejournal. At the upper end of the journal A the spiral groove aterminates in a rin g-groove, which should be drectly opposite the endof the'upper channel d2, so that the oil, after passing up through thespiral groove a', may ilow through the upper chaunel cl2 back into theoil-cup or reservoir D, to be again used.

By this construction the oil is introduced at the lower end of thejournal and is carried up the entire length of said journal, oiling theentire surface of the bearing without any waste of oil, the surplus oilliowing back through the upper channel d2 into the oil-cup, to be againused.

This device is designed especially for use with vertical journals; butit may be employed with advantage with horizontal journals'.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The journal A having spiral groove a', and theiixedbearng B, removable bearing G having close oil-reservoir D andchannels d1 cl2, and the end-grooved rod E, all constructed and arrangedtogether as and for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 27th dayofApril, 1871.

Vitnesses: WVILLIAM G. WINNE.

JAMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MOSHER.

